Re-engineering Assessment Practices in Higher Education

Ensure that peer review is a regular activity not a one-off event

20 February 2013

This principle has just been added and one deleted. The construction of principles is a complex process and getting feedback from many people is important. I have had this principle in and out across the various attempts to produce a coherent and valuable list.

I will add text here soon - David Nicol

Notes

Why a regular activity?

takes practice to develop evaluative abilities

more likely to develop learning communities

excellent way to get students to spend time on task (Gibbs, 1999)

it takes time to get students used to this kind of activity and it will work better with practice

to ensure that there is some continuity of experience as students progress through modules

How to put this principle into practice?

Build peer review into the course as a core platform for student learning

Use in class as well as out of class for formal and informal activities (e.g. Gibbs example of posters)

Create one task and build to more complex tasks through the module

Create variation in mode of implementation to highlight different skills - eg making sense of multiple received reviews versus production of reviews.